New High-Speed Network Connects Dadaab Aid Agencies For Collaboration. a project by NetHope and partners Inveneo, Cisco and USAID
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1 New High-Speed Network Connects Dadaab Aid Agencies For Collaboration a project by NetHope and partners Inveneo, Cisco and USAID
2 The worst drought and famine in more than 60 years have threatened the livelihood of 9.5 million people in the Horn of Africa since early Refugees from Somalia continue to arrive in Kenya by the tens of thousands, making the Dadaab complex now the world s largest refugee camp ever with almost 500,000 counted and perhaps as many as 100,000 more unregistered. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is the lead agency responding to the crisis, along with World Food Program, UNICEF and other Non-Governmental Organizations including Care, Save the Children, Kenya Red Cross, Oxfam, International Rescue Committee and Norwegian Refugee Council. These agencies provide critical life-sustaining services such as food distribution, housing, sanitation and medical relief to those in Dadaab. Teams are stretched to their limits. To make matters even more difficult, al Shebaab, the Somali-based terrorist organization, recently escalated activities in and around the camps. Security practices and protocols have been ramped up to ensure the safety of contractors, staff and refugees. How Better Connectivity Can Help In September 2011, based on a request from the USAID Global Broadband Innovations (GBI) Chief of Party, NetHope, a consortium of 34 member NGOs, sent their Connectivity and Emergency Response directors, Joe Simmons and Gisli Olafsson, to Dadaab to explore the potential to improve and reduce the cost of connectivity for the UN and NGOs operating in the region. Inveneo and Cisco Tactical Operations (TacOps) were subsequently invited by NetHope to identify opportunities to bring better, more reliable Internet and interagency communications to the NetHope members and other humanitarian agencies working in the region. NetHope and Inveneo mobilized a team to travel to Dadaab and assess the situation in detail. On the ground in Dadaab, it was clear from the UN and NGO community that bringing incremental, reliable and affordable Internet access would increase staff productivity, especially in delivering essential food, housing and medical services. It would also lead to better overall coordination, security and communications. If Inveneo and TacOps could install and configure a local high-speed network, 1
3 [photo right] Skinny guy wire masts are always more interesting to climb than the big telecom towers. They tend to sway a bit. Inveneo CTO Andris Bjornson climbs the UNHCR mast in Dadaab. the Dadaab organizations could immediately begin to collaborate and share information more effectively. An existing UNHCR-led network initiative for smaller NGOs and community centers needed to be substantively reviewed to ensure that any new networking designs would be compatible, complimentary and synergistic. NetHope, Inveneo and TacOps secured a commitment from Cisco to donate equipment and commitments from USAID, Microsoft and UNHCR for funding. It was determined that there were two major areas where we could help. I. First, Inveneo would initiate and lead a strategic business and engineering partnership with Orange, a local Kenyan mobile and landline telecommunications service provider, to extend new data services into the Dadaab compound using Inveneo s long-distance WiFi solution. NetHope aggregated the demand for the new service among the Dadaab aid community and Orange committed to a preferred pricing arrangement as well as to adequate initial and ongoing capacity. Orange is making their highly reliable Internet connectivity available by providing backhaul from their existing Dadaab tower to international fiber networks. Inveneo designed a local distribution network and training plan to enable Orange and prequalified Dadaab IT staff to quickly grasp, support and connect to the Inveneo-designed access solution. II. Second, Inveneo and Cisco TacOps would co-design a high-speed network to connect the Dadaab agencies locally and to enable bandwidth-intensive, intra-agency collaboration technologies like file sharing, video conferencing designed by Cisco and voice over IP telephony applications. This collaboration network, DadaabNET, would also provide a Cisco router-based failover configuration to switch agency traffic to a 4-Mbps, UNHCRprovided satellite system in the event of primary connection failure. This effort involved IP addressing and configuration support from both Cisco and Inveneo as well as consultative engineering support from UNHCR and the Dadaab Aid Agency IT staff. Status and Results NetHope negotiated discount pricing and capacity commitments for Dadaab with two local Kenyan service providers in January Phase One of this project was successfully implemented in March During the week of March 12, Orange hosted an Inveneo-led classroom training session in Nairobi that provided hands-on instruction on long distance WiFi. Inveneo offered a custom practical curriculum in both network design and installation as well as tower safety to prequalified Orange and Dadaab-based NGO technical staff. During the week of March 19, Inveneo, NetHope, Inveneo s local partner SetRight and Cisco s local gold partner Dimension Data team traveled to Dadaab. Monday and Tuesday, Inveneo worked side-by-side with the newly trained NGO, Orange and SetRight teams in Dadaab, giving them the guidance and confidence to successfully complete Orange and UNHCR tower 2
4 Counsel, Care, Oxfam and Kenya Red Cross so it was truly an interagency support group. The expectation was that four or five sites could be installed, and then reviewed and verified when the Inveneo team returned. Thursday, in Dadaab, Inveneo found their expectations were far exceeded. The DadaabNET team installed 19 radios at ten agency locations. On Thursday and Friday, Inveneo verified the work and finetuned the implementations. Future installs and troubleshooting can now be properly completed [photo left] Joe Simmons of NetHope and Mark Summer of Inveneo work in the core equipment room of the Dadaab Collaboration Network. [photo above] Trainees from Orange Kenya, Inveneo ICIP Setright, and Dadaab-based IT staffs assemble an Ubiquiti Rocket Dish. installations. The Orange tower is the hub for the access network and the UNHCR tower is the hub for DadaabNET. Dimension Data was also busy meeting with IT staff at the installation sites: consulting with Cisco-led TacOps engineers, training local staff and completing the initial router configurations. As part of the training and skills building plan, the Inveneo team left Dadaab late Tuesday afternoon to cover training the Orange Network Operations Center in Nairobi. Inveneo challenged the six newly trained agency staff with the installation of Customer Premise Equipment for both the access and DadaabNET networks. The team includes staff from UNHCR, World Food Programe, Norwegian Refugee by the local IT team with Inveneo positioned to provide remote support for existing and ongoing humanitarian agency installations. The 3
5 [photo below] Edwin from Inveneo partner Setright mounts RocketM5s and AirMax sectors on a tower standoff. We save a lot of time by pre-installing standoffs before hauling them up the tower. DadaabNET team has taken full ownership of the networks. All future troubleshooting, support and installations will be managed frontline by the local DadaabNET interagency team. By the same count, Dimension Data, working with Cisco TacOps successfully implemented and tested routing at all ten newly installed locations and ensured a good hand-off to the DadaabNET team. The initial bandwidth contracted was fully installed. Orange intends to add triple the amount available over the next 60 days to keep pace with demand and to meet new service order expectations. This connectivity is already enabling the humanitarian agencies to function better, to communicate between agencies, and to support overall operations. Some agencies are now purchasing bandwidth from multiple Kenyan service providers, who based on NetHope negotiations now offer reliable highly discounted competitively priced services to Dadaab-based agencies. Since provider s access routes are physically diverse, purchasing from both is recommended to improve uptime and reliability. They also have plans to move more costly VSAT systems to failover mode. As the new network architecture is tried and proven to be more reliable and cost effective, it will be extended to the general population via sustainable outreach community centers that support learning, resettlement and economic empowerment. With the strong reliable connectivity offered by the DadaabNET project, humanitarian organizations will be able to better respond to crisis in the area. This is the model we want to bring to scale, said Bill Brindley, NetHope Executive Director and CEO. Dadaab is a challenging environment, but by bringing together the right technologists, local partners and innovative technical tools, its humanitarian agencies are now better connected than ever. We are increasingly using this unique, ecosystem approach to connect development organizations to high quality broadband in under-served regions around the world, Kristin Peterson, CEO and Co-Founder of Inveneo. The Inveneo, Cisco and NetHope partnership, fortified and proven successful during earlier 4
6 collaborations in Haiti and elsewhere, is now expanding to embrace a broader alliance with USAID, UNHCR, WFP, Microsoft and others. The Haiti and Dadaab models have the necessary ingredients and momentum to rapidly bring sustainable rural broadband connectivity and value-added applications to scale in selected underserved communities. Our immediate focus now is Phase 2, which brings IP telephony, conferencing web services, cloud computing and sustainable community outreach education centers to the Dadaab community. and collaboration so that there will be ever increasing opportunities to extend the broadband across rural Kenya and beyond. The Dadaab Connect project is funded by USAID s Global Broadband Innovations partnership with NetHope, Inveneo s Broadband for Good Program, Microsoft, Cisco, UNHCR, and Craig Newmark and the Orr Foundation. Inveneo, Cisco, NetHope and Orange will also continue to grow their partnership [photo left] Trainees are under Inveneo s CTO Andris Bjornson s guidance, to learn safe climbing techniques on 50 Meter towers. 5
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